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OMC said:
@Joe Mac, while I absolutely love Van the Man’s music output, clear back to the Them days, I find it difficult to separate the music from his modern views on the politics of mankind. Same with Clapton. Being a fellow Irishman, if I’m not mistaken, how do you parse this conundrum? If this is not the place to talk about it, please forgive me for bringing it up.
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Joe Mac said:
For a start I can’t put him in the same bracket as Clapton. He’s a nasty piece of work who has done and said some very very bad things.

Van Morrison is a grumpy shit. But then he’s always been a grumpy shit. I have issues with him hanging about with members of the DUP but given what he’s said on the record had mainly been anti pandemic restrictions stuff I’d be emptying out a lot more than him on that basis, as much as I disagree with the position.

I suppose a lot it comes down to attempting to separate the art from the artist to a degree because otherwise we lose Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page’s underage girlfriends), Lennon (wife beater) and so so many more.

The only one I really have a huge problem with, and kinda feel green when I see it posted here, is Michael Jackson who was clearly a dangerous and predatory peadophile.
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Yeah, Van’s a grumpy old dude and that’s basically it. Even his pandemic rhetoric wasn’t sensational as much as it was selfish… I can’t work, These rules are dumb, let me work.

Clapton is a piece of shit but I still listen to him from time to time. MJ I don’t play anymore but enjoy and don’t turn off when it comes on.
 
Joe Mac said:
For a start I can’t put him in the same bracket as Clapton. He’s a nasty piece of work who has done and said some very very bad things.

Van Morrison is a grumpy shit. But then he’s always been a grumpy shit. I have issues with him hanging about with members of the DUP but given what he’s said on the record had mainly been anti pandemic restrictions stuff I’d be emptying out a lot more than him on that basis, as much as I disagree with the position.

I suppose a lot it comes down to attempting to separate the art from the artist to a degree because otherwise we lose Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page’s underage girlfriends), Lennon (wife beater) and so so many more.

The only one I really have a huge problem with, and kinda feel green when I see it posted here, is Michael Jackson who was clearly a dangerous and predatory peadophile.
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Well posited and thank you for thoughts.
 
Wes C. Attle said:
Love the Corbin Carroll bobblehead!
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He had a brief stint with the Hillsboro Hops, our local High A Diamondbacks affiliate. Been pulling for him ever since!

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